Scott Brown on 2016 run: 'I am curious'

Former Sen. Scott Brown is considering a run for president in 2016, he told a Massachusetts paper Sunday while at the Iowa State Fair.

“I want to get an indication of whether there’s even an interest, in Massachusetts and throughout the country, if there’s room for a bipartisan problem solver,” Brown told the Boston Herald from the early-caucus state. “It’s 2013, I think it’s premature, but I am curious. There’s a lot of good name recognition in the Dakotas and here — that’s pretty good.”

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Scott Brown on N.H. Senate run: Nothing is off the table

Scott Brown's concession speech in Mass.

The Massachusetts Republican tweeted Friday that he was headed to Iowa and North and South Dakota for “some family, fun and meetings” but did not elaborate. The day before, he spoke at an event he hosted for the Republican National Committee at Fenway Park in Boston, saying the Republican Party needs to be big enough for everyone, including Brown and Sarah Palin, for example.

During Brown’s low-key visit to the state fair, he happened to receive a phone call from Secretary of State John Kerry, a former Massachusetts senator, the Des Moines Register reported. Brown said Kerry just wanted to see how he was doing.

While Brown didn’t introduce himself to many voters, the Register said, his GOP operative guide Luke Martz did steer him to the Iowa GOP booth, where he signed an elephant statue.

Brown is also considered a possible candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2014 and senator for New Hampshire.

He decided not to run for the Massachusetts Senate seat vacated when Kerry was named secretary of state, after losing a reelection bid to Elizabeth Warren in 2012.